These are primary sources for the “List of Beneficiaries of the Right to Participate in Duma Elections”, or the Duma Voters List for the Vilnius Region. List of People Permitted to Vote in Duma Elections, 1906. Source: Онлайн библиотека Царское…
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I am seeking archives that have copies of Киевская губерния Ведомости from 1906 to review the Duma voters list for the Kiev province. Copies are believed to exist at the Moscow public library. Contact me if you know where digital copies…
Read more → I am seeking the primary sources for the 1906 and 1907 Duma Voters List for the Kiev Province. The complete title is “List of Beneficiaries of the Right to Participate in Duma Elections” (Список лиц, пользующихся правом участия в выборах в Государственную…
Read more → Yossel Atlas made ladies hats that he sold from his Madison Avenue store in New York City. drafting Mayer Hofstein started life in America in the milliner trade. Mayer lived a few blocks away from the Atlas family. Feige Kolik…
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Boarding the S. S. Campania in Liverpool, Yossel Atlas sails alone to New York in May 1904, leaving behind his wife Bessie and children. The Ellis Island ship manifest lists him on line 11 as “Josef Atlas”, a 30-year-old merchant…
Read more → Feige Kolik’s 1914 ship manifest shows “Uncle Yossel Atlas” as her host in America. Who were the Atlas family? (See Update to this Story) Facts The 1915 New York State Census show the Atlas family residing at 1562 Madison Avenue…
Read more → Sailing on the steamship George Washington from the German port of Bremen, eighteen year old Feige Kolik arrived in New York on the 8th of June 1914. Ellis Island immigration officials recorded Abram Kolik from “Yurevics, Minsk” as her nearest…
Read more → Searchable index to historical Russian newspapers from 1703 to 1917. Website: http://www.nlr.ru/rlin/svnewsp.php
Read more → Beiber Surname Dictionary Yaroker — see Eretskij (Kanev, Kherson) T: from the village Erki (Zenigorodka d.) {Yaretskij, Yarotskij, Yaroker}Source: A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire Yerki is a village in Zvenigorodka District, Ukraine. It is 125km (25…
Read more → Searchable, English-language newspaper archive from 1923 to 2008 “JTA Archive.” JTA Jewish News Archive. JTA, n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2013. Website: http://archive.jta.org/
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